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Army Corps Clears Halliburton
In Flap Over Fuel Pricing in Iraq

By

Neil King Jr. Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Jan. 6, 2004 6:32 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- The head of the Army Corps of Engineers quietly exonerated Halliburton Co. of any wrongdoing in a Kuwait fuel-delivery contract that Pentagon auditors asserted has overcharged the U.S. government by more than $100 million.

In a previously undisclosed Dec. 19 ruling, the commander of the Corps, Lt. Gen. Robert Flowers, cleared Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary of the need to provide "any cost and pricing data" pertaining to a no-bid contract to deliver millions of gallons of gasoline from...